Its my opinion and last time I checked I was entitled to my opinion. Fortunately I am no alone. Many political pundits, of course not the left leaning ones, do believe that the National Broadcaster is bias.

Not sure. Is the MEAA writing an article all they've done? Because if so, the article would arguably be more accurate by leading with... "Journalism being criminalised because the union that's supposed to protect it does absolutely nothing worthwhile to protect it"

Many years after sending her beloved protege to Ponyville, unease sits heavily on Princess Celestia's heart as her relationship with Twilight Sparkle seems to have cooled despite all they've accomplished together. On the advice of her sister, Celestia sets out to investigate and resolve the lost connection with her most faithful student. What does it mean to be a Faithful Student...or a Princess of the Sun?
Earned a six-star rating on Equestria Dailyand featured on its very own TVTropes page!.

I used ti regularly game in a group where one of the guys had hos 7 year old daughter play. Playing OSR systems like Torchbearer among others the only real concern was censoring some content on the fly. She understood very well the difference between character knowledge and player knowledge and contributed as much as anyone at the table.

At cons on a couple of occasions have played Microscope with children, sone of the best games.

The Bible is the word of God as recorded by man. Some tracts of it may be interpreted through the lens of its time, however there are large tracts that are immutable. Homosexuality is one of those things.

for example; look at the various popes, and how they approach something like wearing condoms; or gay people; or abortion - the central authority has been forced into (gradually) adopting more 'progressive' social perspectives; because the alternative is to cede power/spiritual authority -

edit: also it occurs to me you have an uber literal take on "the bible", and the correct way to practice 'being a christian' - here's a link to an interesting comment i was reading the other day; basically it talks about how a lot of the bible incorporated preexisting Sumerian myths/writings into bible stories (like adam and eve) - so when i read your comment demanding people comply with the text else "they're not christians" i think it's a funny inconsistency - the bible itself is a patch-work assemblage! isn't the core message of JC loving thy neighbour and such!?

My biggest issue is how the zebra end up being portrayed so much more like black people than even in the actual show itself. They're basically depicted as stereotypical African tribes just with megaspell tech. It turns the whole thing into badly written vaguely racist race war porn.

I don't agree. They paralleled the Roman army styled faction of Caesar's Legion, which is pulled straight from the plot of Fallout New Vegas. I believe you're reading things in to it that aren't there.

Heh. I bought a new screen for my motorcycle. Only Australian retailer costed it at 470AUD + 38AUD postage.

I got it from Italy for 370AUD al up. Pop on the GST plus this $5 and that's $412AUD. Still a saving of over 50AUD.

Back when I was burning through a set of bicycle tires every three months, one tire would cost 50 AUD where I could by two for the same price online. So 100AUD vs 60AUD, still a 40AUD saving.

It's not so much the retailers, it's the distributes that need there arses sorting out. When my mechanic tells me to go to a popular UK online shop to buy the components because I can get them cheaper than he can buy them at cost, that's a serious problem

I bought a mountain bike from ireland. It was 890 delivered. The LBS had a similar model for 2000+ and wanted 2 weeks to deliver it (it was on the other side of melbourne apparently) (also chain reaction is awesome).

I have a little chrome bag. Its decent but i am really not a fan of the metal seat belt clasp. It's heavy and swings around, if you unclasp it on accident it will just drop your shit. Nice bag but not an EDC imo

you missed his point. he clearly says having ABS is better, because it will save your ass when you screw up and lock up the wheel — but applying proper braking skills will result in shorter braking distance, so ABS is no substitute to perfecting your braking skills

this video is a joke that has been discussed ad nauseum. there's no consistent speed at the point of breaking, this test is using Hondas Dual electronic CBS not your regular ABS, and in the conditions that are worse for us humans, because braking on a wet slippery surface is harder, especially if you are not experienced with this particular track, tires, vehicle and conditions. finally have you seen the difference a skill of the rider makes (assuming same-ish speed between abs/nonabs rides for the same rider)? much more significant comparing to abs vs nonabs. which just means they either a) weren't driving at the same speed or some of them didn't know how to do emergency-braking with abs (c'mon you it's not hard, you just hammer the brakes). it's just incompetent.

finally i'd like to say i'm not one of those "hurr-durr 1'm zo gut i don't need no abs, it's for pussies and just adds extra weight" types. i own a bike with abs and swear by it, it has saved my ass and i advocate that every bike should come equipped with it. but i have done the testing myself, and i can reliably outbrake abs on my bike by 3-4 meters from 100km/h to 0 in dry conditions during my yearly emergency braking training. in the wet, i just don't have the balls to hammer the brakes hard enough, and had to rely on abs to save me from a low-speed crash just a couple of days ago (it was wet with patches of snow here). try it yourself! i'm sure after a couple of hours of learning at most you would be able to beat your abs too.

edit: really it's just physics. don't trust me? ask any engineer, the basic principle of how abs works prevents it from applying optimum braking. the purpose of abs is to save you from falling if you lock up the wheel, not to break as hard as possible.

There is a huge difference between knowing one is about to emergency brake and the arse puckering moment when one has to emergency brake unexpectedly. As an FYI, i practice every two months. I still reckon that if it came to it that the ABS would be more significant than my practice.

Nobody, that's just what happens wherever I work. Offical work hours will be something like 12:00pm-10:00pm but really you show up at around 11:00am and leave about 10:30pm, unpaid of course. You get more done and are rewarded for it. I'm not saying it's right or that we are like bloody Japan or something, just that seems to be how things work from my own personal experience.

Vim has a much shallower learning curve than Emacs. Also, using evil mode in Emacs is one of the best ways to use a non-vanilla version of the editor. So learning the vim key bindings (by using vim) would not be a wasted effort.